Living Construct. The animate worker drone is a
living construct, and does not need to eat, breathe or sleep, though an animate
with spell casting ability will need to meditate. Animates are immune to poison
and disease. Living contructs do have an animating spirit, however, and
intelligence. As such they are not resistant to mind altering effects,

Lightning Slowness. Animates are reduced to half
moving speed for one round when struck by lightning, and in that round they
cannot take bonus actions or reactions.

Elemental Imbuement (fire): animates may imbue themselves with resistance to one
elemental type. The sample worker drone is imbued with fire, but this can vary
among any of the elemental types.

Animate workers are usually found deep
in the belly of animate cities such as Beltraine. These gangly, lean
mechanicals are comprised mostly of clockwork mechanisms, rubbery joints,
wooden slat carapaces and streams of flowing, radiant elemental energy. The
type of energy is usually a giveaway as to the nature of their driving
elemental force. They rarely seem to have much intelligence to their actions,
instead following whatever obscure programming they have been direct to carry
out.

Worker drones
that somehow get loose or find themselves lost in the surface world of squishy
biologicals often have mental breakdowns, being unable to properly process the
data they experience. As such they are rarely deliberately seen outside of
actual animate communities, and those few that wander the land tend to act very
strangely, almost insane (and sometimes even become chaotic neutral in behavior
permanently).

Variant
Worker drone Traits:

Flyers

Some worker drones are equipped with metal wings and
steering columns hooked up to rudders allowing lift and guidance in flight.
These drones have flight speeds of 60 feet, and work on the delicate spires of
the Animate cities. They also work with four clawed limbs instead of a humanoid
form, adding a claw attack option:

Multiattack: flyers can attack up to four times with claws against
targets in range with one action.

Certain worker drones are designed to dig deep into the
earth to forge new passage ways and excavate for new material resources. They
have tremorsense and can move with a burrowing speed of 30 feet. Their drill is
an additional attack:

Multiattack: the digger may strike with two fists or one fist and a
drill.

The important thing is that in a million years, when the brain-worms of Arcturus IX have annihilated us throughout the galaxy, there will be no surviving recordings of blogs to be found by the cephalopods that evolve to replace us. In this way will their civilization advance and prosper.